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2/27/2025
10 : 24

The Annoying Path to Privacy Herd Immunity

Plus! Robots; Competition; Model Moderation; Eggs; Sentiment The Annoying Path to Privacy Herd Immunity By Byrne Hobart • 18 Feb 2025 View in browser View in browser In this issue: The Annoying Path to
2/27/2025
7 : 44

Longreads + Open Thread

Types, Ellison, AI, YouTube, Private Credit, Globalization, Lending, Huawei Longreads + Open Thread By Byrne Hobart • 22 Feb 2025 View in browser View in browser Longreads Chad Nauseam on the annoying
2/27/2025
7 : 24

Filling Out Forms is Corvée Labor

Plus! The Real News Business; Credit, Wealth, and Risk-Adjusted Returns; Less-Than-Truckload; Capex; Bundling and Scale; Diff Jobs Filling Out Forms is Corvée Labor By Byrne Hobart • 24 Feb 2025 View
2/14/2025
2 : 54

AI Assistants Will Be Great (Especially for the Biggest Companies)

Plus! Short Selling; Crypto Treasury Gresham's Law; The Joy of Higher Rates; Labor Substitution; Pricing Black Swans AI Assistants Will Be Great (Especially for the Biggest Companies) By Byrne
1/13/2025
15 : 54

The Economics of Logos

Plus! Elsewhere in Reputation Markets; Knocking Down Data Walls; Closing the Arbitrage; Cost Avoidance; State AI Investment The Economics of Logos By Byrne Hobart • 13 Jan 2025 View in browser View in
1/11/2025
17 : 4

Longreads + Open Thread

Longreads * Gwern has a lengthy meditation on effort, specifically the kind of effort involved in doing what was previously thought to be impossible [https://gwern.net/on-really-trying]. It's not
1/6/2025
15 : 34

Credentialism and the Money Illusion

Plus! Diff Jobs; Capacity Constraints; IPO Window; Strikes and Opportunity Costs; The Upside and Downside of Ads; Backcasting Returns Credentialism and the Money Illusion By Byrne Hobart • 6 Jan 2025
1/4/2025
17 : 4

Longreads + Open Thread

Paradigms, AI, Pentium, Netflix, China, SBF Longreads + Open Thread By Byrne Hobart • 4 Jan 2025 View in browser View in browser Longreads Philo of M&DA has a great piece ranging from Sam
12/23/2024
15 : 34

Economic Lessons from the Last Few Singularities

Plus! Conflicts and Confluence; Bonds; Empire Building; China; The Capital and Talent Cycle Economic Lessons from the Last Few Singularities By Byrne Hobart • 23 Dec 2024 View in browser View in
12/21/2024
17 : 4

Longreads + Open Thread

Inflation, AI, Linkrot, Data, Research, Pod Shops, Life Advice, Nvidia Longreads + Open Thread By Byrne Hobart • 21 Dec 2024 View in browser View in browser This issue of The Diff is brought to you by
12/19/2024
7 : 24

Longreads + Open Thread

Kotkin, Luttwak, Poker, DRW, PCs, Statistics, AI, Hamilton Longreads + Open Thread By Byrne Hobart • 14 Dec 2024 View in browser View in browser Longreads Tyler Cowen interviews Stephen Kotkin on
12/19/2024
6 : 54

What Would it Look Like if The Pod Shop Model Blew Up?

Plus! Economic Blocs; Benefits; Headlines; IP and Finance; Squaring the Global Imbalances Circle What Would it Look Like if The Pod Shop Model Blew Up? By Byrne Hobart • 16 Dec 2024 View in browser
12/10/2024
5 : 4

Longreads + Open Thread

Trading, Money, Homemakers, Taxes, AI, Passive Longreads + Open Thread By Byrne Hobart • 7 Dec 2024 View in browser View in browser Longreads Abraham Thomas has a delightful retrospective on an effort
12/10/2024
4 : 51

Social Media as a Test of Human-in-the-Loop Generative AI

Plus! Holdcos; Cash and Control; War Economies; In-Kind Dividends; Currency Social Media as a Test of Human-in-the-Loop Generative AI By Byrne Hobart • 9 Dec 2024 View in browser View in browser In
12/2/2024
15 : 34

The One-Big-Side-Bet Model of Wealth Creation

Plus! Diff Jobs; Building Japan's Financial Ecosystem; The New Balance of Trade; Where Return on Investment Goes; Broken ETFs; Swipe Fees and Accounting The One-Big-Side-Bet Model of Wealth
11/30/2024
17 : 4

Longreads + Open Thread

Shanghai, Wrong, Returns, Nuclear, Employee Performance, Feedback Loops, Buffett Longreads + Open Thread By Byrne Hobart • 30 Nov 2024 View in browser View in browser Longreads The FT has a piece on
11/25/2024
15 : 44

After Return on Equity

Plus! After Return on Equity; Operating Leverage in Media; Tech Globalization; Meta Memecoins; Accounting; Buy Low, Refi After Return on Equity By Byrne Hobart • 25 Nov 2024 View in browser View in
11/23/2024
17 : 4

Longreads + Open Thread

Microsoft, The Study, Fraud, Electronics, Gaming, Loss Aversion, Gut, Kerkorian Longreads + Open Thread By Byrne Hobart • 23 Nov 2024 View in browser View in browser Longreads Steven Levy profiles
11/18/2024
15 : 44

The Modern Private Equity Business was Invented in Beverly Hills in the 70s

Plus! Diff Jobs; Product Convergence; Musk v. Altman; The Bundle; Financing a Boom; Investor Protectionism The Modern Private Equity Business was Invented in Beverly Hills in the 70s By Byrne Hobart •
11/16/2024
17 : 4

Longreads + Open Thread

Replication, Gwern, Polostan, Druck, Prediction Markets, Selection Effects, Drexel Longreads + Open Thread By Byrne Hobart • 16 Nov 2024 View in browser View in browser Longreads Ever since Ioannidis,